CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26264, 8 November 1950, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Congratulations to Sister Christabel Waddell, of Wellington, were recorded by the Presbyterian Assembly at Auckland last night. She has attained the jubilee of her ordination to the deaconess’s order. Sister Waddell has just retired from the position of Presbyterian Social Service Association city deaconess in Wellington and will leave for England next week. She was the first deaconess of the New Zealand Presbyterian Church and is the widow of the Rev. Rutherford Waddell, of Dunedin.—(P.A.) Mass Rena W. Adamson (Clifton, Sumner), who left New Zealand for England two years ago, is now living at Kew, and is doing private nursing. She has travelled considerably in England, Scotland, and the Scandinavian countries, and has enjoyed much hospitality from the Victoria League. Sister Daisy Dempsey, of Christchurch, was appointed principal of the Presbyterian Deaconess’s College in Dunedin by the Presbyterian Assembly at Auckland last night.—(P.A.) Miss Roma Pascoe, of Melbourne, the winner of Victoria’s "Miss Teenager” competition, arrived in Auckland on Monday to make a short tour of New Zealand. Visitors to Christchurch for the A. and P. show and the Randolph ball include Mr and Mrs Brian Boys and Mr and Mrs John Coop, of Hawke’s Bay. Miss Irene Milnes was last evening appointed by the City Council an honorary inspector of the Banks avenue reserve, opposite her home. The trustees of the estate of Mrs T. Tomlinson have advised the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women that, under Mrs Tomlinson’s will, a legacy of £5O for general purposes has been left to the branch. Mrs Tomlinson was a loyal member of the National Council, and had for some years held the office of branch treasurer. Work on the construction of a replica of the ship Randolph at the King Edward barracks is now almost completed, and decorations will be added in preparation for the early colonists’ ball to-morrow evening. All the tickets for the ball, which has become known as the Randolph ball, have been sold, and the organisers have decided to hold a tea dance on Friday evening for those who, for various reasons, were unable to attend the ball. At the tea dance the reenactment of the farewell breakfast on the Randolph, which will be a feature of the ball, will be performed again, and the “ship” will be as it was on the previous evening. The tea dance, however, will be an informal function, and a nominal charge will be made at the door.

Final arrangements for the garden party to be held early next month were made at the luncheon meeting of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Navy League yesterday. The president (Mr* H. Wyatt) who presided, made special mention of the sea cadet corns’ twentyfirst birthday party, at which about 80 guests were entertained in Lyttelton on Trafalgar Day. Letters of thanks for parcels received were read from both of the English naval dependants’ children sponsored by the auxiliary. The hosnital visitor (Mrs A. Schumacher) reported on having visited seamen patients in the hospital and the sanatorium. Mr J. K. Milner, who has retired from the position of Dominion secretary of the Overseas League, was the guest of honour at a sherry party given by the Auckland branch of the League on Monday evening. A Maori carved cigarette box was presented to Mr Miiner by the president (Mr C. M. Rattray). Private advice has been received from London that the New Zealand soprano. Miss Ena Rapley. will open a season in the Royal Cafe in the West End of London on November 21. Miss Rapley has taken the professional name of Elizabeth Gray.

The women of New Zealand were doing a remarkable job. particularly the older women, who in spite of many other ties, still found time to do the work the country needed so badly, said Mrs G. H. Ross, Minister for the Welfare of Women and Children, when speaking at the annual meeting of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Society for the Protection of Women Society for the Protectionof Women and Children. Mrs Ross said she trusted that the same spirit would prevail among the younger women, as it did among the older ones, and that they would take over work in organisations when their turn came.

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